Supermodel Lauren Bush, niece of President Bush, couldn't resist flirting with the hunk yesterday at the Tommy Hilfiger show in Bryant Park. The 18-year-old daughter of Neil and Sharon Bush confessed that she's hopelessly devoted to his show.

Obviously liking what he saw, Marriott, 28, asked for her phone number.

Putting up a little barrier, Bush's spokeswoman at Elite agreed to take the card from Marriott's spokesman.

One guy who might want to tell Marriott to back off is Lauren's beau, Tammer Qaddumi, 19, who could be in for some interesting dinner-table conversation if he ever accompanies her to the White House.

The young Palestinian-American has been outspoken at Yale over the university's relationship with Israel.

Withdrawing university investment in Israel as a protest against that country's treatment of Palestinians has been a topic discussed in colleges around the country. Qaddumi, a Yale freshman, was one of two students who raised the issue at a November meeting of a college council.

"I brought it up, and it was immediately shot down," a "frustrated" Qaddumi told the Yale Herald.

The Bush administration has opposed punishing Israel by divestiture.

Seagal's carrying on

We don't know if Steven Seagal's pleased to see you, but we can confirm that's a gun in his pocket.

Before he testified in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday, the actor stopped at police headquarters to pick up a pistol.

Seagal's rep said the actor was retrieving a weapon he had vouchered for safekeeping two years ago.

The "Exit Wounds" star got the VIP treatment, going in through the employee entrance on Pearl St. and being whisked into the property clerk's back office.

Testifying on Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court about an alleged mob extortion attempt, the action figure said, "In New York, I always carry a gun."

(Asked by Judge Frederic Block, "You don't have a gun on you now, do you?" the actor said no.)

Seagal told the Daily News' John Marzulli he packs heat because he's a firearms expert.

Meanwhile, the actor gets a verbal bludgeoning from his former private eye. In the March issue of GQ, Anthony Pellicano, the L.A. detective, insists that Seagal did not hire him to intimidate L.A. Times reporter Anita Busch, who had been investigating the mob extortion case.

"I can't stand that piece of [bleep]," Pellicano says of Seagal in the mag. "He's a rat and a [bleep-bleeper]."

A Tony wedding?

Is Anthony Hopkins again ready to have a third helping of marriage? The twice-wed "Red Dragon" star and his girlfriend, Stella Arroyave, are said to have picked March 1 for their nuptials.

Arroyave is a former antiques dealer from South America. She's been dating the "Silence of the Lambs" Oscar-winner for about a year and a half.

Hopkins' rep would not confirm or deny a betrothal. The actor is 65. Arroyave is 46.

The potential bride might want to heed the words of the last Mrs. Hopkins, Jenni, who once said, "You have to take responsibilities for him that normally a man would take, such as carrying the money for him when you go out, having a front-door key, a checkbook and a handkerchief."

The couple divorced last April after 29 years of marriage.

Kerry's doing nicely

Armed with some lucky charms, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was doing well yesterday after his surgery for an early form of prostate cancer.

Dr. Patrick Walsh, who performed the three-hour operation, said, "Everything came out very nicely. Everything looked completely contained."

Walsh said the presidential hopeful will not need follow-up radiation treatment and should be released from the hospital on Saturday.

Kerry's wife, the former Teresa Heinz, said her husband was in "good spirits."

Arriving at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital yesterday, the Vietnam War Medal of Honor winner wore his lucky leather bomber jacket, bearing his Navy swiftboat unit's patch. Kerry also wore his old dog tags.

One of his escorts at the hospital was a former Marine, prompting Kerry to joke: "You know, the Marines are an adjunct of the Navy."

The Daily News' Ken Bazinet reports that Kerry brought a book with him, "A History of the American People" by Paul Johnson. The Senator made another joke: "If I read this, maybe I don't need anesthesia ... or I could just read 'The New War' " - a tome written by Kerry in 1997.

More palace intrigue

Paul Burrell, the butler once accused of stealing items belonging to the late Princess Diana, has been the subject of press speculation in the U.K. about the state of his marriage.

Given that an Australian man, Greg Pead, is selling Burrell's affectionate letters to him, this may not be surprising. Pead has said the two had sex in Buckingham Palace during a three-year relationship in the '80s.

Burrell, 43, has been married to Maria Burrell, 48, for 18 years, and they have two teenage sons. Maria said she knew about her husband's sexual past.

Side dishes

A British Man has changed his name to Ozzy Osbourne after attributing his recovery from a coma to the miraculous power of Black Sabbath. The former Robert Jacques, 35, was unconscious for three months after a motorcycle accident. But his mother played Ozzy's tunes by his bedside until he revived. "It was recognizing his voice that did the trick," he told London's Daily Star. Ozzy rules!...

Local boy Paul Simon is doing well. On Tuesday, he picked up an Oscar nomination for "Father and Daughter," the song he contributed to "The Wild Thornberrys Movie." A week from Sunday, he and former singing partner Art Garfunkel will receive lifetime-achievement awards at the Grammys. We asked his rep if he and Art spoke much these days. "Not so much," he admitted.

Surveillance

Yoko Ono dined with son Sean Lennon, his girlfriend, Bijou Phillips, and French filmmaker Gaspar Noé after the screening of Noé's controversial new film, "Irreversible," Tuesday night. At the intimate post-film soiree at Brian McNally's Cafe Lebowitz, we also spotted fashion photographer Terry Richardson sharing a table with Natasha Lyonne...

Betsey Johnson cavorted on a swing at Lotus after her show on Monday. The wacky designer kicked at a piñata to the beat of a mariachi band. You may recall that her fashion show had a Mexican theme...

Harry Connick Jr. closed down Gaslight on W. 14th for a photo shoot for TV Guide.

With Ben Widdicombe and Suzanne Rozdeba

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